[Dovecot] BOGUS files
Hi
what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username).
FC3
Mark
Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller
You must have seen this file in /var/spool/mail, right? I've seen this too. This is the old file mail file for user watasuik. It gets created when you change settings for the user when the user is logged in [changing groups, etc]. It seems that the systems gets confused about which user's mail it is. Somebody on this list can give you a more technical explanation. But if you see the user's mail file [/var/spool/mail/watasiuk] as well, you can just merge the two files to get the complete mail for the user.
Saurabh.
On Jul 2, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username).
FC3
Mark
Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller
Hi
I have seen 2 different files (usernames) with the BOGUS setting and the username file. i have yet to see a BOGUS file > 0 bytes.
Yes in /var/spool/mail
Mark
----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurabh Barve" sa@atmos.colostate.edu To: "Mailing List Dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] BOGUS files
You must have seen this file in /var/spool/mail, right? I've seen this too. This is the old file mail file for user watasuik. It gets created when you change settings for the user when the user is logged in [changing groups, etc]. It seems that the systems gets confused about which user's mail it is. Somebody on this list can give you a more technical explanation. But if you see the user's mail file [/var/spool/mail/watasiuk] as well, you can just merge the two files to get the complete mail for the user.
Saurabh.
On Jul 2, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username).
FC3
Mark
Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller
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On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:30:59PM +0100, Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
I have seen 2 different files (usernames) with the BOGUS setting and the username file. i have yet to see a BOGUS file > 0 bytes.
Yes in /var/spool/mail
Are you using procmail? As I recall, if procmail is built to think of /var/mail as the where users' inboxes are, and encounters a file in /var/mail that it can't or won't make use of, it will attempt to rename it to that BOGUS name and get it out of the way so that it *can* use a mailbox file in /var/mail. This includes moving symbolic links.
mm
Something is going on with your user permissions. Are you adding/deleting/modifying users [probably while they are logged in]? The system is not able to figure out the user permissions for the mail file, so it is creating those BOGUS files.
What are the permissions on the BOGUS and the user mail files? Are they "username:mail" or something different?
Saurabh
On Jul 2, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
I have seen 2 different files (usernames) with the BOGUS setting and the username file. i have yet to see a BOGUS file > 0 bytes.
Yes in /var/spool/mail
Mark
----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurabh Barve" sa@atmos.colostate.edu To: "Mailing List Dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] BOGUS files
You must have seen this file in /var/spool/mail, right? I've seen this too. This is the old file mail file for user watasuik. It gets created when you change settings for the user when the user is logged in [changing groups, etc]. It seems that the systems gets confused about which user's mail it is. Somebody on this list can give you a more technical explanation. But if you see the user's mail file [/var/spool/mail/watasiuk] as well, you can just merge the two files to get the complete mail for the user.
Saurabh.
On Jul 2, 2005, at 3:26 AM, Obantec Support wrote:
Hi
what does this mean BOGUS.watasiuk.8B8I (watasiuk is a username).
FC3
Mark
Obantec Support www.obantec.net 0845 458 3121 WebHosting and Domains Nominet UK Member & IPStag Holder CentralNic Accredited Reseller
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Sorry Saurabh i forgot to change reply address to the list so you will get this and list copy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Saurabh Barve" sa@atmos.colostate.edu To: "Mailing List Dovecot" dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] BOGUS files
Something is going on with your user permissions. Are you adding/deleting/modifying users [probably while they are logged in]? The system is not able to figure out the user permissions for the mail file, so it is creating those BOGUS files.
What are the permissions on the BOGUS and the user mail files? Are they "username:mail" or something different?
Saurabh
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Nope only the user accesses via pop3, he does not even use webmail.
BOGUS is username:mail chmod 600 as is the username file in /var/spool/mail which has a link /var/mail to /var/spool/mail
Mark
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Obantec Support wrote:
Something is going on with your user permissions. Are you adding/deleting/modifying users [probably while they are logged in]? The system is not able to figure out the user permissions for the mail file, so it is creating those BOGUS files.
Or got different credentials when it accessed the file.
What are the permissions on the BOGUS and the user mail files? Are they "username:mail" or something different?
Nope only the user accesses via pop3, he does not even use webmail.
I've seen such bogus-files with the MTA rather than imap/pop. sendmail tried to spool the message into the user's inbox in /var/spool/mail and determined that the ownership didn't match to the current credentials of the user. Also, the access permissions have to match some prerequisites.
BOGUS is username:mail chmod 600 as is the username file in /var/spool/mail which has a link /var/mail to /var/spool/mail
Hmm, if both files really have the same user & group ownership and the same access permissions - did the permission of the /var/mail directory changed? Or - well it might happen - are the files owned by the same _numerical_ IDs (ls -n).
If Dovecot is doing so (well, try rgrep on the sources), it might mean that your user database was returning different results or was inaccessable.
Bye,
-- Steffen Kaiser
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Mark E. Mallett
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Saurabh Barve
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